Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 24, 2022

While reverse logistics was not specifically called out, funding for warehousing and automation, e-commerce fulfillment, contract logistics services, and inventory/order management represented 13.5% New to RLA’s annual conference will be a reverse logistics startup competition. of the total $80 billion in funding.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

As such, the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA) will shine the light on six of these firms in RLA’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Feb 7-9 , in its inaugural Reverse Logistics Startup Pitch Contest. According to the company, it provides a faster, greener, and more cost-effective way to leverage existing inventory.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

Consumers couldn’t get enough of buying goods since the pandemic occurred in 2020, and shippers struggled to keep enough inventory on hand once pre-pandemic inventories were depleted. As a result, many retailers are sitting on excess inventory. This year, everything seems to have changed again.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 30, 2021

Supply Chain Implications Smaller stores typically mean less inventory. As many of these stores are also serving as online fulfillment locations, positioning the right inventory at the right store will be important. Hence, investing and utilizing a good inventory management system will be critical. The key here is fast.

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Cathy Roberson

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Access to bathrooms This has been a problem forever for truck drivers when they are picking up or delivering cargo. Representatives Troy Nehls (R-TX) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) for introducing the Trucker Bathroom Access Act on Dec 15 to ensure that truckers have access to restroom facilities when they are picking up or delivering cargo.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Are you attending the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference later this month (September 25-28 in Orlando, FL)? I hope to see you at the conference! Keeping track of warehouse inventories with an army of fully autonomous drones (TechCrunch). Date: Monday, September 26, 2:00-3:15 pm.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 14, 2022

It’s been a crazy month plus - new customers, three conferences, and a couple of podcasts and webinars. Last year it seemed the biggest concern for many shippers was receiving inventory on time, regardless of the cost. an article is well, well overdue…my apologies. That’s about it for now.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Despite falling short of last year’s holiday shipping traffic expectations, CEO Carol Tomé predicts a strong peak season in 2023, saying in a late July Earnings Conference Call , “ Inventory levels are good. Air Cargo Volumes Normalizing YoY, but Concerns Remain. Retailers are brought in to sell.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 31, 2022

"We are clearly in a very disruptive supply chain environment… Clearly, positioning inventory closer to customers, being able to get supply chain efficiencies, being able to have fast and efficient delivery, it is the future." In June, I’ll be heading to a couple of conferences. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

“The aim is to pare what Target calls its replenishment cycle from days to hours and reduce inventory at stores, especially at the retailer’s new small-format stores and locations in denser urban areas. also uses the same pool of inventory to replenish stores and fulfill online orders, a departure from Target’s existing supply chain.”.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 15, 2018

beefs up security of air cargo imports (American Shipper). At the Descartes Evolution 2018 conference in March, Mark Holifield, Home Depot’s Executive Vice President of Supply Chain and Product Development, discussed how the retailer is investing $1.2 Capstone Logistics acquires LoadDelivered, Logistical Labs (CCJ).

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Cathy Roberson

APRIL 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in dramatic shifts in volume characteristics for many transportation providers - first in supplying retailers in inventory restocking and direct to consumer and then, along with retail restocking and direct to consumer, supporting manufacturers as facilities reopened during the second half of the year.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 28, 2021

Current inventories are not able to keep up with the pent-up demand that is driving the desire for the latest shoe fashion as consumers return to work, shopping in stores, and to social activities such as concerts, parties, and travel. In fact, it appears that low inventories are here to stay for many of the retailers. and down 25.4%

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 8, 2013

We’ll be discussing the future of the cloud during our Crossroads conference on June 26 th. How many shipments are delayed, for example, because the contractual penalties for a carrier failing to a load a box onto a vessel or for a shipper not providing the agreed cargo on time are too weak to deter these practices? Register here.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 5, 2016

As reported by The Seattle Times , “Amazon will fly its latest Boeing 767 widebody jet freighter, publicly revealing the new ‘Prime Air’ branded livery of its fast-growing fleet of used cargo planes” at today’s Seafair aerial display over Lake Washington near Seattle. The video below shows the jet freighter getting painted.

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Savi

MARCH 14, 2019

Last week, the Savi Team once again attended the Trans-Pacific Maritime (TPM) conference in Long Beach, California, but this year the team detected a noticeable shift in the conversation. Beneficial Cargo Owners, or BCOs, openly said shipping price increases are necessary for carriers to stay profitable.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

Air Cargo World. This American based niche news site specialises in air cargo. Cargo Business News.com. based niche site, covering air, sea, rail and road cargo news. But within that, it has a very broad scope covering, not just air cargo, but all aviation, aerospace and space news. ACWmagazine. CargoBusiness.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. The ability to in real time identify the location and status of the sourced goods gives the importer the ability to fine tune its distribution channels, its inventory management and its ability to fulfill commitments to its end users. arviem real-time cargo monitoring.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Similar bottlenecks at inland points threaten to slow the movement of cargo and choke off growth. sponsored by IHS Markit. Carrier services have stabilized as well. The bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping Co.,

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

As was confirmed for me yet again this week at a conference, the most utilized supply chain and logistics application, the reigning champ of them all, is the Excel spreadsheet. Forget cloud, social, and mobile. Forget WMS and TMS. Forget BI and analytics. As the saying goes, old habits die hard. NAFTA trade reached $96.5 percent for trucks).

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Requis

JANUARY 9, 2020

Another example from fulfillment might involve things like faster alternate transportation route planning in case of the unexpected, or monitoring cargo temperature for shipments of perishable food or medicines. This example could apply to any collection of physical equipment, like a drilling rig or a refinery.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 17, 2022

Many retailers’ inventory ear-marked for the holiday season sat on a ship, in a container waiting to be picked up, or was snapped up quickly by consumers ahead of the 2021 holiday season. “ We experienced unexpected inventory receipt slides.due to extended port & transportation delays. compared to 1.13 in October and 1.30

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The application, called AWS Supply Chain, was introduced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The application then maps the information, highlighting current inventory selection and quantity at each location, the Amazon unit said. billion consumers isn’t immune to Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy’s cost-reduction campaign.

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Cathy Roberson

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. Keeping Goods Moving Through Disruptions & Bottlenecks I’ll also be at Reverse Logistics Association’s (RLA) annual conference the following week. I wear a number of hats these days.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 14, 2023

Up until then, collective liner pricing organizations (conferences)— which America was not part of—had gained so much market power that they had the ability to unilaterally raise rates and reduce services. As a result, the U.S. exports to war-torn countries. Of course not. desires.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 15, 2016

Accenture Releases Enhanced Ocean Cargo Pricing Software to Provide Greater Pricing Visibility for Carriers. With Amazon, you never know, which is why I’ll be updating the presentation I will deliver at the SMC3 Connections 2016 Conference on June 28th in Chicago (“A–Z: The Emergence of Amazon as a Global 3PL”) from now until I walk on stage.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Are you attending the CSCMP Annual Global Conference next week? Thirteen Years After 9/11, A New Attempt To Screen 100 Percent of Cargo Containers ( Roll Call ). If so, let’s connect. It’s clear from this week’s long list of news that the pace of change and innovation in supply chain management continues to accelerate. Macy’s, Inc.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In one of my earlier blogs , I recapped his presentation at this year’s Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, where he noted several real-world IoT examples, including Coca Cola’s Freestyle machines, HP’s Instant Ink subscription model and Tesco’s virtual grocery stores. This can be accomplished through an API-based economy.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2018

Full block train, single or multiple containers, LCL shipments and oversized cargo are available options. Robinson offers empty container pick up, collection at factories, customs declaration at origin, customs clearance and further pan-European distribution by intermodal and truck services at destination areas.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

In the past, supply chain professionals are trained to handle the service issues through a planning of inventory , service level and after-sales operations. The below is the opinion from one of the top executives, "I attended a conference where someone in the audience asked Starbucks? We try to do the same thing at Zappos.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

In any typical year, companies around the globe must factor the New Year shutdown into their inventory management plans. National Fisheries Institute Global Seafood Market Conference on January 17, 2023, agreed that the just-in-time model is floating belly-up. Indeed, a panel of experts in Palm Springs, California, for the U.S.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

I will note Rice used my list during his own excellent presentation on supply chain innovation at the MHI annual conference last October. The result was terribly inefficient handling on both sides of the equation, poor space utilization on the cargo ships, freight damage, and high logistics costs.

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